Article Choice

I am from California, and decided to chose and article that focused on the current economic debacle within the University of California system. Doyle, the author, is a staff writer from the "San Francisco Chronicle". The UC system plans to increase tuition rates 10 percent at 10 of the campuses for the summer session, which will eventually lead into the fall and spring sessions as well. The undergraduate increase from $ 7, 126 to $ 7,789 though not seemingly alarming, is covered with scandal. The fear comes from the possibility that continued tuition rates are not affordable for lower-income families. Also, that is not proportionate to the cost living increase.

The controversy also steams from the refusal of the chancellor of Cal, Birgeneau, to take any sort of a pay cut. The economic crisis is not only effecting businesses and Wall Street, it is severely hurting students and schools. The idea behind a public schooling system is to educate students, not to turn them away because of their lack of funds.